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Re: Why is regedit referenced?
- From: Barry Kelly <bkelly dot ie at gmail dot com>
- To: John Sellers <jks_nospam at sellers dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:15:44 +0100
- Subject: Re: Why is regedit referenced?
- References: <48C4B480.5030003@sellers.com>
John Sellers wrote:
> When I run Cygwin on my WindowsXP machine,
What do you mean by Cygwin? A bash prompt?
> my firewall informs me of
> regedit activity, searching, and text manipulation. I have not located
> the source of this activity.
Firewalls generally protect against network activity rather than
registry activity, so it's unclear exactly what you're talking about.
Remote registry is a service in Windows that can permit authenticated
users to access your machine's registry, but I suspect this is not what
your utility is talking about.
Process explorer[1] can tell you what application accessed the registry,
what keys it modified, and the call stack at the time of the
modification.
[1] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
-- Barry
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